Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51206-h.htm or 51206-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51206/51206-h/51206-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51206/51206-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/truestoriesofgre06mill TRUE STORIES OF THE GREAT WAR Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses Collected in Six Volumes From Official and Authoritative Sources (See Introductory to Volume I) VOLUME VI Editor-in-Chief FRANCIS TREVELYAN MILLER (Litt. D., LL.D.) Editor of The Search-Light Library 1917 Review of Reviews Company New York Copyright, 1917, by Review of Reviews Company CONTENTS The Board of Editors has selected for VOLUME VI this group of stories told by Soldiers and Army Officers direct from the battle-grounds of the Great War. It includes 165 episodes and personal adventures by forty-two story-tellers--"Tommies," "Boches," "Poilus," Russians, Italians, Austrians, Turks, Belgians, Scotchmen, Irishmen, Canadians, Americans--the "Best Stories of the War" gathered from the most authentic sources, according to the plan outlined in "Introductory" to Volume I. Full credit is given in every instance to the original sources. VOLUME VI--FORTY STORY-TELLERS--165 EPISODES "BEHIND THE GERMAN VEIL"--WITH VON HINDENBURG 1 RECORD OF A REMARKABLE WAR PILGRIMAGE Told by Count Van Maurik De Beaufort (Permission of Dodd, Mead and Company) "KITCHENER'S MOB"--ADVENTURES OF AN AMERICAN WITH THE BRITISH ARMY 16 UNCENSORED ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG VOLUNTEER Told by James Norman Hall (Permission of Houghton, Mifflin Company) "HOW BELGIUM SAVED EUROPE"--THE LITTLE KINGDOM OF HEROES 32 TRAGEDY OF THE BELGIANS Told by Dr. Charles Sarolea (Permission of J. B. Lippincott Company) THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S VISIT TO THE FRONT 43 TAKING THE MESSAGE OF CHRIST TO THE BATTLE LINES Told by The Reverend G. Vernon Smith (Permission of Longmans, Green and Company) "GRAPES OF WRATH"--WITH THE "BIG PUSH" ON THE SOMME 52 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A PRIVATE SOLDIER Told by Boyd Cable (Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company) A NOVELIST AND SOLDIER ON THE BATTLE LINE 63 Told by Coningsby Dawson (Permission of John Lane Company) STORIES OF THE WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BELGIUM 81 AN AMERICAN AT THE BATTLEFRONT Told by Albert Rhys Williams (Permission of E. P. Dutton and Company)